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Chinese solar company says its new cell has an efficiency of 35.5 percent (engadget.com)

2026-07-18 | by Mariella Moon | tags: longi, crystalline silicon-perovskite, solar cell

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Security engineer ports password cracker hashcat to Gameboy Advance — 16.8 MHz chip can perform a meager 727 hashes a second, 30 million times slower than a modern rig (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-18 | by Bruno Ferreira | tags: hashcat, gameboy advance, arm7tdmi

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Will AI fix prior authorization—or make it worse? (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-18 | tags: prior authorization, artificial intelligence, health insurance

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4 Best Walking Pads for Small Spaces and Standing Desks (2026) (wired.com)

2026-07-18 | by Boutayna Chokrane | tags: walking pads, standing desks, safety recalls

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OpenAI will start notifying parents if their teen has been kicked off of ChatGPT (engadget.com)

2026-07-18 | by Mariella Moon | tags: openai, chatgpt, moonshot

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Feeling sticker shock in the produce aisle? Try these hacks to save money (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-18 | tags: tomatoes, berries, produce

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Your Smart Home Is Raising Your Electric Bill. Here’s How to Stop It (cnet.com)

2026-07-18 | by See Full Bio | tags: google nest, amazon echo, phantom load

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My Top College Dorm Device Picks I've Tried Out at Home (cnet.com)

2026-07-18 | by See Full Bio | tags: lepro ai lamp, google home speaker, security sensor

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Google-Backed Satellites For Wildfire Detection Launch As Smoke Chokes US, Canada (slashdot.org)

2026-07-18 | tags: firesat, spacex falcon 9, muon space

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India fined HP $14.4 million for rigging government bids and fixing ink and toner prices (techspot.com)

2026-07-18 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: hp india, government e-marketplace, antitrust

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This New Process Turns Plastic Trash Into Clean Fuel Instead of Pollution (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-18 | tags: plastic recycling, clean fuel, carbon efficiency

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If U.S. home prices fell 16%, it’d restore housing market affordability to the long-run average (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-18 | tags: u.s. housing market, home prices, affordability

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TikTok is no longer banned on US government devices (engadget.com)

2026-07-18 | by Mariella Moon | tags: tiktok, bytedance, oracle

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I pitted Samsung against Pixel for privacy features — and the winner isn’t clear (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-18 | tags: samsung, pixel, secure folder

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Family Horrified When They’re Forced to Sell Their Beloved Home to Make Way for AI Data Centers (futurism.com)

2026-07-18 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: ai data centers, georgia power, eminent domain

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Prompt Injection Attacks Are Thwarting AI Hacking Agents (wired.com)

2026-07-18 | by Dan Goodin | tags: prompt injection, large language models, tracebit

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Qubes OS Security in the Public Record (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-18 | tags: qubes os, security, public record

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Data Centers Are Making Electricity Brutally Expensive for the Public (futurism.com)

2026-07-18 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: data centers, pjm, energy demand

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7 ways to instantly turn a potential argument into a respectful, productive conversation (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-18 | tags: natural gas, mechanical inspector, furnace

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Meta Patents Technology to Detect Your Mood by Constantly Analyzing Your Tone of Voice (futurism.com)

2026-07-18 | by Maggie Harrison Dupré | tags: meta, patentlyze, voice analysis

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You’ll Never Guess What Tasty Molecule Astronomers Just Detected In Space (futurism.com)

2026-07-18 | by Frank Landymore | tags: nature astronomy, erythrulose, astrochemist

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Why high achievers can’t just ‘be nicer’ to themselves (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-18 | tags: high achievers, self-kindness, mental health

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Apple raises iCloud+ subscription prices in several countries (9to5mac.com)

2026-07-18 | by Marcus Mendes | tags: icloud+, apple, price hike

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Australia To Put Environmental Brakes On AI Data Centers (slashdot.org)

2026-07-18 | tags: australia, ai data centers, prime minister albanese

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Astronomers Found the First Atmosphere on a Planet in Another Star’s Habitable Zone (cnet.com)

2026-07-18 | by See Full Bio | tags: exoplanet, lhs 1140b, harvard center for astrophysics

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iPhone owners hit 87% loyalty rate this year, Android-to-iPhone switching drops to 12% (techspot.com)

2026-07-18 | by Daniel Sims | tags: apple, cirp, android

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DrDroid (YC W23) Is Hiring (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-18 | tags: drdroid, accel, playbooks

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The Birth of Prolog (1996) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-17 | tags: prolog, 1996, programming language

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Leather jacket worn by Nvidia CEO goes for just under $1 million at Sotheby's auction (cnbc.com)

2026-07-17 | by Kif Leswing | tags: nvidia, jensen huang, sotheby's

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Sensing warm and cool: how the body detects temperature changes (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-17 | tags: thermoreceptors, university of queensland, brain institute